You might not have access to the file to change it.

In order to get access you need to get super user privileges and that is sudo.

Open terminal, type:

sudo -H gedit "your file name "

To see detailed info about your permissions use

ls -l

Other Octal Permission Examples:

User / Group / Other rwx Mode Symbols Octal Equivalent
-rwxr-xr-x 755

-rw-rw-r-- 664

-rw-r--r-- 644

-rw------- 600

rwxrwxrwx 777

Changing File Permissions - Chmod

The chmod command is used to change the various permission bits of a file or directory.
The command takes the general form:
chmod MODE file

chmod filename

example for full access Command

sudo chmod 777 out.ogv